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New York City-Based 'charity' Eyed in Terror Money Probe Feb. 26, 2004 By Tom Hays / Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - When Sheik Abdullah Satar visited mosques in Brooklyn and Manhattan in the waning days of 1999, the FBI was watching. An outspoken cleric and political figure in Yemen, Satar was put under 24-hour surveillance amid fears about possible terrorist attacks on New Year's Eve. The sheik was never arrested or charged with a crime. But five years later, his name has resurfaced in an investigation of the Brooklyn branch of an obscure charity - its address a...

SHEIK Taj Din al-Hilali: "The Western people are the biggest liars and oppressors and especially the English race," the Mufti of Australia said in Arabic during the extensive interview in Egypt, his birthplace. [source]On the racist gang rape spree by Arab Lebanese people|Lebanese in Australia targeting specifically white girls, From the Sydney Morning Herald 2002 Racist rapes: Finally the truth comes out, So now we know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading,...

THE Australian Federal Police has seized documents and will question key Islamic community figures after widening its investigation into allegations Australia's mufti, Taj Din al-Hilali, gave charity funds to supporters of al-Qa'ida and Hezbollah terrorist outfits in Lebanon last year. The Weekend Australian understands the AFP this week contacted Sheik Hilali's confidant Keysar Trad -- who is in Lebanon -- about the probe. In recent days, police have seized documents from the Sydney-based Lebanese Muslim Association, which is linked to Sheik Hilali, and also interviewed its president, Tom Zreika. It is believed the federal police "intelligence probe" will include the...

A GOLDEN handshake -- including a weekly stipend and rent-free accommodation -- is being drawn up for Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali as powerful community leaders head a push to oust the controversial imam. Sheik Hilali has been officially banned from delivering sermons, and his title as mufti of Australia is expected to be up for grabs when the nation's imams meet in coming weeks to discuss a potential successor. The future of the 66-year-old's spiritual position at Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney was thrashed out last week by more than 50 Sydney-based Muslim leaders during a secret meeting. The...

SHEIK Taj al-Din al-Hilali pulled out of giving the Friday sermon at his Sydney mosque today after being warned to tone down his "freak show" rhetoric. Members of the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), which runs the popular Lakemba mosque, intercepted Australia's most senior Muslim cleric on his way to give the sermon. LMA president Tom Zreika said the sheik pulled out after being told his sermon had to be apolitical, avoiding talk of the Lebanese Muslim candidates expected to run at the March state election. The sheik yesterday ruled himself out of running, but said he would endorse the candidates,...

Hilali Calls Westerners "Liars" In Latest Rant“Sydney, Australia (AHN) - Controversial mufti Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali has again angered both Muslims and Australians by speaking out about his faith and current homeland. Sheik Hilali participated in an Egyptian television interview where he made claims that his people have more entitlement to Australia than those with a convict heritage and continued to express his disdain towards westerners. He said, "The Western people are the biggest liars and oppressors and especially the English race." ” http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006113351

SHEIK Taj Aldin al-Hilali's comments about women are just the tip of the iceberg of extreme views which could have damaged Australian society over the past decade, Treasurer Peter Costello says. Sheik al-Hilali is under fire after suggesting in a Ramadan sermon last month skimpily dressed women invited sexual attack, comparing them to uncovered meat tempting neighbourhood cats. Mr Costello said the sheik had a history of making inflammatory comments, dating back to the late 1980s when he made public anti-semitic remarks. "The latest episode is just the latest in a long tradition. I congratulate the muslim community for dealing...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000920.php Mufti of Australia: this was Muslim land Mufti of Australia: this was Muslim land - Mufti of Australia and New Zealand, Taj Al-Din Hamed Abdallah Al-Hilali, is claiming that Australia was originally Muslim land, settled by Afghans. The Aborigines are their descendants: this is a key element of the claim to Israel put forward by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The same claim has been advanced, by the way, for America...

TAJ Din al-Hilali has praised militant jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling them men of the highest order for fighting against coalition forces - which include Australian soldiers - to "liberate" their homelands... The revelation comes as a neighbouring cleric from Sydney's Bankstown accused Sheik Hilali of supporting military Islamic jihad against the West and called on imams from around the country to band together to force the mufti to step down. As John Howard and Kim Beazley called for Muslims to act against Sheik Hilali, Jamal Rifi, from the Australian Muslim Doctors Against Violence, pleaded with the mufti: "Please...

Briton backs imam in 'uncovered meat' rowFrom Bernard Lagan in Sydney ONE of Britain's most senior Muslims has defended as "a great scholar" the Australian imam who likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat that draws predators. Abduljalil Sajid, a senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain, offered support for Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali's views, saying that "loose women like prostitutes" encouraged men to be immoral. Dr Sajid, visiting Australia, said that Sheikh al-Hilali was attacking immodesty and loose dress, or "standing in the streets, inviting men to do these bad acts". Although the Australian cleric did not use...

ISLAM'S CRIME OF (ENCOURAGING ON) RAPING WOMENNot too many in the west were so exposed to that awful truth as lately with:Imam justifies rape of unveiled women Ynetnews - Oct 26, 2006 Australia's top Muslim cleric rationalized a series of gang rapes by Arab ... The cleric also said the judge in the case, who sentenced ... "The uncovered meat is the ... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3320149,00.htmlMuslim leader blames women for sex attacks The Australian, Australia - Oct 25, 2006... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? ... by Sheik Hilali's remarks, insisting the cleric was no ... Young Muslim...

Islamic Advice from Imam Yahu al-ZiriusSpiritual Leader, Fostaz al-Vegimita MosqueLakembabongabinga, Sydney, NSWSheik Taj Din al-Hilali of Mullagangabanga, NSW asks: Some of the cobbers at my local mosque spotted some sheilas who weren't wearing their hijabs, so they naturally had a go at raping them. For some reason the coppers loaded them off to gaol! I ask you: if you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or...

AUSTRALIA'S top Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching for three months after describing women who do not dress modestly as ``uncovered meat'', but the government decried the punishment as being too lenient. The comments by Sheikh Taj El-Din Hamid Hilaly, the mufti of Australia's biggest mosque in Sydney, has outraged Muslims and the wider community, prompting calls for the Egyptian-born cleric to be sacked and deported. Prime Minister John Howard said the suspension order by the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association, which owns Hilaly's Lakemba Mosque, was not enough. ``I believe that unless this matter is satisfactorily resolved by the...

But in the event of adultery, the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time with women. Why? Because the woman possesses the weapon of seduction. She is the one who takes her clothes off, cuts them short, acts flirtatious, puts on make-up and powder, and goes on the streets dallying. She is the one wearing a short dress, lifting it up, lowering it down, then a look, then a smile, then a word, then a greeting, then a chat, then a date, then a meeting, then a crime, then Long Bay Jail, then comes a merciless judge who gives...

THE apology from the sheik was profuse. He had verbally attacked women, endorsed suicide bombings in Lebanon and declared that Jews were plotting world domination. "The two cheapest things in Australia are the flesh of a woman and the meat of a pig," he said. Taj Din al-Hilali accepted his words were offensive. "I genuinely believe that I have changed for the better," he insisted. Nothing, it seems, has changed in the last 20 years. The nation's most senior Muslim cleric was not responding to public damnation over his Ramadan sermon last month in which he blamed women for inciting...

Australia Muslim cleric suspended Australia's top Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching for up to three months, after comparing immodestly dressed women to "uncovered meat". Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali's comments, suggesting that women who did not wear a headscarf attracted sexual assault, have caused a storm of protest. Sydney's mosque association said the suspension would give the cleric time to consider the impact of his words. But Australian Premier John Howard said the action was insufficient. Many people - including some Muslim leaders - have called for the cleric to be dismissed from office. Sheikh Hilali sparked more controversy...